KMWorld Leader Group for 2026: The KM Leaders Circle
KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS
Knowledge graphs represent data as interconnected concepts, entities, events, and relationships to provide a comprehensive view of information, enabling organizations to uncover new insights, patterns,
and trends.
♦ Winner: Graphwise
• Amazon Neptune
• Empolis
• Enterprise Knowledge
• Franz
• Neo4j
• Squirro
• Stardog
• TigerGraph
• TopQudrant
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Knowledge management (KM) relies on people, processes, and technology to capture, create, organize, share, and utilize its collective knowledge to improve decision making, innovation, and productivity.
♦ Winner: KMS Lighthouse
• Access Innovations
• Bloomfire
• Earley Information Science
• eGain
• Guru
• LumApps
• Shelf
• Stravito
• Upland RightAnswers
RAG SOLUTIONS
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is the process of optimizing the output of a large language model (LLM), so it references an authoritative knowledgebase outside of its training data sources before generating a response.
♦ Winner: Shelf
• Coveo
• Databricks
• Elastic
• Franz
• Glean
• Graphwise
• Progress Software
• Sinequa
• Squirro
SEMANTIC LAYERS
A semantic layer creates a single source of truth that empowers both human users and AI applications to understand, access, and analyze information without needing deep technical expertise.
♦ Winner: Cube
• AtScale
• dbt Labs
• Denodo
• Dremio
• Enterprise Knowledge
• Google Looker
• Graphwise
• Microsoft Power BI
• ThoughtSpot